EXCHANGE MAIL SERVICES - incl. push / aliases etc

[chamelion]

hey guys,

I'm now offering exchange mailboxes to users (subscription based service). right now i see two, one by austindkelly in the wizard forum (he's disappeared for over a month and looks like he doens't offer his service any more) and one by denial in the kaiser section ($5/month). I thought I'd offer up a similar service starting with the hermes group (cheaper of course) with a few extra tidbits of joy...

- supports iphone exchange services, saves a heck of money over apple's mobileme service!
- outlook web access (with the advanced interface)
- 1gb quota
- both SSL as well as standard port options
- *IMAP access* - you don't even need outlook, syncs flawlessly with your phone.
- *MAPI* outlook access - hook up your outlook on your PC to sync with my service which in turn syncs with your phone. no plugging in ever needed!
- alias included (get your own email)
- changing your password through outlook web access (one-way non-reversible encryption).

I figured it's a bit of an overkill having my own exchange server that's serving a single account (i.e. mine). so why not open it up!

Price is $10 for 3 months, $19 for 6 months.

Please PM me if you're interested... Already have a number of beta testers who I've received only positive responses from so far. I'll probably set up your account within 12 hours (probably less).

And yes, will give you unused credit money back etc etc if you're unsatisfied for whatever reason. I'm really not in this for the money, it's more to utilize something I spent hours building up, plus to cover the costs of my internet / server hardware.

And, as usual, if you need any files hosted for xda-developers just let me know, i'm already hosting over 40 ROM images and serving 5-6gb/day in ROMs from the wiki!

cheers!


free accounts:

will provide 10 rotating free accounts at any given time for test purposes, will base it off of usage. so if you use the free account, i'll keep it up indefinitely, if not then account will be removed after 14 days and given to the next person in line.

Free accounts do not have MAPI access, have 50mb storage, have no aliases either.


Depending on utilization I may increase this 10 free account limit.

[CUSTEL]

Chamelion, I will be pming you later in regards to two accounts, there are a couple things I need to research beforehand.

[chamelion]

Chamilion, I will be pming you later in regards to two accounts, there are a couple things I need to research beforehand.

sure thing :) let me know if there's anything i can help answer with your research! granted, you probably know more about this than i do ;)

[betrayed]

what version of Exchange are you running. I am curious about recieving html e-mail.

[nvisi0n]

what version of Exchange are you running. I am curious about recieving html e-mail.

Yes, that and can I point my domains mx record to you and use my personal .com address?

[chamelion]

what version of Exchange are you running. I am curious about recieving html e-mail.

exchange 2003.

Yes, that and can I point my domains mx record to you and use my personal .com address?

much easier for both of us if you just forward your personal .com address e-mail to the e-mail address my server assigns you. if you have an alias, your replies will appear from your personal .com email, not from my server :)

for those who've PMed overnight (i'm in london time, 8:20am here now) i'll set up your accounts within the next few hours.

[chamelion]

update: all accounts from last night are set up. see your credentials information in your PM boxes!

[DR400]

Hi Chamelion !

Did you get my last PM regarding the change of username to make it lower case to avoir pb with the transfer of emails to gmail.com ?

Thx in advance,

Cédric

[chamelion]

Hi Chamelion !

Did you get my last PM regarding the change of username to make it lower case to avoir pb with the transfer of emails to gmail.com ?

Thx in advance,

Cédric

hey cedric!

yep got the PMs, i've changed your username now to make it lowercase. give it a shot now!

hadn't replied yet as your PMs were at 12:30am and 3:20am my time; i'm an old man and needs his rest ;)

[DR400]

hey cedric!

yep got the PMs, i've changed your username now to make it lowercase. give it a shot now!

hadn't replied yet as your PMs were at 12:30am and 3:20am my time; i'm an old man and needs his rest ;)

Hi !

I can understand. No problem.

I'm 35 myself but my last daughter is only 2 weeks old ... that's why I'm still alive and kicking at 2.30 am (Paris Time).

Cheers for the account. I'm giving it a try and will report soon.

[chamelion]

current users : please feel free to give feedback on this thread too! appreciate it via PM but it'd be nice for other users to get some 3rd party reviews of the service!

[jjjjayd13]

Chamileon, how can I use?

W/O internet access through phone company?

With internet access through free wifi?

TIA

jjjjayd13:confused:

[chamelion]

doesn't matter what kind of internet you have / what method you use. long as you can open a website, you can use this :)

[DR400]

current users : please feel free to give feedback on this thread too! appreciate it via PM but it'd be nice for other users to get some 3rd party reviews of the service!

Hi everyone,

I have to acknowledge that the service provided by Chamelion is working flawlessly. I've been using it for a week now and did not encounter any trouble except encoding issues but apparently not from his side. Flexmail is getting crazy with encoding, but poutlook is working great.

For sure, give it a try (if not more) !

thanks Chamelion for the good experience.

Note also that Chamelion is very accessible and quick to respond.

[chamelion]

appreciate the positive review DR400, thanks :)

[pulpfxn]

I have also been using the service for a week, and both Web Access and poutlook are working great.

[SVIK73]

I just signed up for the exchange service with Azim and it is great. Not only is it working wonderfully, his customer service and response time has been great. You can't beat what he offers with a stick!

Sign up peeps!

Scarlet

[chamelion]

thanks for the feedback guys and gals!

[fossiltkm]

Customer Service is A+, Exchange works flawlessly.

Great Job Azim, and Thank You!

[chamelion]

few people are asking about synching from multiple sources...

from my understanding i can only give you one alias for your accounts, which means you can't select your "from." however you're free to forward as many accounts as you wish to the account i create for you, but you can only send from one "alias."

another multi-synching thing people are asking is whether you can sync calendar with your desktop and email with my service. sure!! its best that way in fact - that's what i do. i have my outlook on my desktop which has my calendar, contacts, and only sync my email via push on exchange to my server... you can even take this a step further and set up IMAP access so what you see in your email client is the same as what you'll see in your pocket outlook... if you delete from your desktop, whoosh it disappears from your PDA too :)

[vettejock99]

Hey Chamilion -

As always, thanks for the cool service. It has been working well. I have been waiting to show my wife all it can do until I can show her on Outlook on her PC how to create appointments, etc. Any ETA on figuring out the issue with connecting to the server via Outlook?

Mark

[chamelion]

sadly not having much luck with MAPI... i've enabled MAPI over HTTP so it will only use 80/443 ports, those ports are working fine, mapi is enabled for all users, but for some reason i get authentication errors when trying to make it work.

you guys should give it a go too, maybe its my machine? in outlook you'll have to go to the exchange server settings and under "connection" ensure that "connect to my exchange mailbox using HTTP" is selected, putting in my full URL in the options dialog under this, using basic authentication...

maybe one of you will be lucky :)

[jjjjayd13]

hey guys,

I'm now offering exchange mailboxes to users (subscription based service). right now i see two, one by austindkelly in the wizard forum (he's disappeared for over a month and looks like he doens't offer his service any more) and one by denial in the kaiser section ($5/month). I thought I'd offer up a similar service starting with the hermes group (cheaper of course) with a few extra tidbits of joy...

What's the problem? yOU to knOwlegable to answer My QuestionS?

jjjjayd13, ;-)))
:mad:

[jjjjayd13]

:mad: now you know WHY you're not moving these packages!!!

[vettejock99]

:mad: now you know WHY you're not moving these packages!!!

Now YOU know why no one is answering your questions!!!

[chamelion]

What's the problem? yOU to knOwlegable to answer My QuestionS?

jjjjayd13, ;-)))
:mad:

i'm so confused... i replied to the only question you asked in this thread in the next post to yours... am i missing something?

[texasaggie1]

Thanks for offering this.

[vettejock99]

Hey Chamilion -

We still can't connect via Outlook, and that may be a show-stopper after this first 3 months. I think you and I are about 8 hours apart (I am in California, GMT -8), but I'd be happy to get online with you and try to sort out what might be the issue. I do have Outlook set for basic authentication, but of course there are a lot of other factors (SSL, NTLM/Kerberos, domain sensitivity in wonderful MS products, etc.) that make trial and error slow-going - especially if it could be something server-based.

Let me know if I can assist in any way.

Thanks!

[chamelion]

Hey Chamilion -

We still can't connect via Outlook, and that may be a show-stopper after this first 3 months. I think you and I are about 8 hours apart (I am in California, GMT -8), but I'd be happy to get online with you and try to sort out what might be the issue. I do have Outlook set for basic authentication, but of course there are a lot of other factors (SSL, NTLM/Kerberos, domain sensitivity in wonderful MS products, etc.) that make trial and error slow-going - especially if it could be something server-based.

Let me know if I can assist in any way.

Thanks!

absolutely NEED this - some real time testers for the MAPI system. just to confirm - you tried using the tunnel over HTTP option in exchange settings right? i really need to narrow down the problem and right now there's just too many things that could be causing it!

i'm going to be in ireland for the next 3 days (back sunday) so can't do anything until then, but when i do get back lets have a chat and work out some real-time testing schedule....

thanks for the offer to help :)

[vettejock99]

absolutely NEED this - some real time testers for the MAPI system. just to confirm - you tried using the tunnel over HTTP option in exchange settings right? i really need to narrow down the problem and right now there's just too many things that could be causing it!

i'm going to be in ireland for the next 3 days (back sunday) so can't do anything until then, but when i do get back lets have a chat and work out some real-time testing schedule....

thanks for the offer to help :)

No sweat. Yes, I do have the "connect using HTTP option on", and the info in the form field for the "proxy" is "azim2.is-a-geek.com" (no quotes). Mutually authenticate is unchecked, both fast and slow headers options are checked. Basic authentication is selected. Only other option, and I am not sure if it comes into play, is under the Security tab - and I have Kerberos/NTLM selected (because neither other setting seemed to work, and this is "auto", I believe).

Have fun in Ireland - if you are in Dublin say hello to the Temple Bar area for me. I need another Guiness ornament to match the one I already have.

[chamelion]

happy new year everyone :)

could i get 1-2 of the existing customers (or 1-2 new members?) to test out the MAPI access with outlook? I got it working for my account but the one "outside" tester i have hasn't had any luck in setting it up. It'd be a great feature to have!

PM me :)

[chamelion]

MAPI (i.e. desktop outlook) access is now enabled :)
still plenty of resources to use up so drop me a line if interested!

[uk19xx]

how could it be tested?

interested on the free account.

Thank you.

[chamelion]

shoot me a PM with desired username, i'll make the test account for you :)

[robjae]

I asked you last month about trying a free account and you said they were no longer available. If they are again, I would appreciate one. robjae

Thank you.

[chamelion]

you got PM :)

[robjae]

Oops, a double post, see below.

[robjae]

I apologize, it was denial who shot my account request down. Sorry and Thank you.

[chamelion]

I apologize, it was denial who shot my account request down. Sorry and Thank you.

lol i was a little confused, as i still have free accounts available! and i don't remember having turned anyone down since i started and had no PM conversation with you from my history. thought ahh, just make an account rather than figure the whole thing out ;)

[chamelion]

guys, if you're not using your trial accounts, please drop me a PM requesting me to close it down. While i can see last log in dates etc, it's much more efficient if you just drop the courtesy PM :)

requesting as i've overshot my initial "10 free rotating accounts" by quite a bit ;)

[padlad]

Thanks for setting up my account so quickly, however i am having some problems, if i send an email from a seperate account to the one you set me up it gets bounced back with errors, (something to do with the domain) also, if i try to send an email from the account you have set up for me i get a sync error even though it connects, syncs and stays connected its only when i try to send an email it gives me a sync error. Any ideas? Thanks

[chamelion]

going to take the server down for about 15-20 minutes this afternoon for a quick reboot and offline backup. planning for 3:00pm GMT. please be patient, hopefully it should be done much much faster!

[Kassad]

cheers for setting the account up so quickly and the excellent tech support!

[chamelion]

quick question - has anyone here managed to get this to work with outlook '07? if i recall someone had, but someone pointed out that they get an error message saying that this version of outlook has been blocked by the administrator, which just isn't true ;)

[chamelion]

updates: outlook '07 started working - user discovered you just need to enable cached exchange mode.

i also have a couple of trial accounts left for those i turned down last week if you're still interested, shoot me a PM :)

[klomp10]

Has anyone running vista/outlook 07 gotten MAPI to work? I have been playing with settings and cached mode or no cache it still gives me the error "The admin has blocked this version yada yada yada". Did anyone doing anything special to get it to work?:confused:

[carphead]

I managed to get it to work on one machine but not on the other. If your running vista you need to make sure that the certificate is imported into the Trusted Root Certification Authorities and not the Personal section. You can tell if it's worked because if you pull up the secure OWA site in IE7 it will display a warning about it not being secure if it's worked you won't see that warning.

As a side note and might be useful to some people I got it the service to work 100% using Emoze on the Symbian (N95) platform. I now have full syncing to both my Tytn II and my N95. I was less concerned about email and more concerned about Contacts and Calendars.

Now I've just got to work out why Outlook works on only one of my laptops.

[chamelion]

I managed to get it to work on one machine but not on the other. If your running vista you need to make sure that the certificate is imported into the Trusted Root Certification Authorities and not the Personal section. You can tell if it's worked because if you pull up the secure OWA site in IE7 it will display a warning about it not being secure if it's worked you won't see that warning.

As a side note and might be useful to some people I got it the service to work 100% using Emoze on the Symbian (N95) platform. I now have full syncing to both my Tytn II and my N95. I was less concerned about email and more concerned about Contacts and Calendars.

Now I've just got to work out why Outlook works on only one of my laptops.

glad you got to at least this step!! wish i could help more - i just am not a vista guy :)

the laptop - is that also a vista machine?

[carphead]

Yep both machines are running Vista Business edition. I'm going to try it with Outlook 2003 and see if I can get it to work on that.

[klomp10]

I got the certificate imported correctly awhile ago, I didn't realize vista didn't put them in the root folder. And I am pretty sure it's logging in correctly, it just claims the admin has blocked this version. Thanks for the tip, did you do anything special with login authentication? :)

[carphead]

The settings I'm using...

Removed by owners request

[klomp10]

Thats exactly what I have also, The name has also been verified as everything is underlined. Also when you google this error, this thread comes up. So so weird. :(

[carphead]

I just checked the settings on my home laptop and they're exactly the same as my work laptop (which works fine) and it got the same problem as you.

I've obviously done something to fix the problem on my work laptop without knowing it. I'll try and compare the IE and Cert settings tomorrow.

[klomp10]

Great please let me know whether you find something or not please.:)

[chamelion]

hey guys,

i've received some requests to install blackberry enterprise server express on top of my exchange services so blackberry users can benefit too. I've already obtained the license for the software, but the client access licenses are $99 each for a perpetual license. Bearing this in mind - would anyone be interested in this sort of service? It's quite a procedure to install it from the looks of it so it'd be nice if I got some sort of feedback to gauge interest before diving in!!

[MunStar]

hey chamelion,

and you got still another great ideas for rising the value of your service!! ;-)
i would really appreciate the new BlackBerry-Service! :D

KEEP UP YOUR GREAT WORK!! YOU SERVICE IS THE REASON, WHY I SAVING 15€ EACH MONTH! ;-)

greets

[carphead]

Quick feedback. I found nothing different from either of my PC's. Both running Vista and Outlook 2007. A reload of the 2nd machine solved the problem! I thought it might be the AV but it still didn't work when I removed it.

[Nate731]

Communication issues today?

[carphead]

And yesterday. Any news?

[chamelion]

sorry guys, new router was set up to update the dyndns domain name but I had skipped the "wildcard" option, so it wasn't resolving the subdomain of my dyndns, which you guys are all using....

all fixed now, sorry for the delayed response too, just got back from a trip.

[chamelion]

Quick update regarding update in the server!

I know I've had some VERY avoidable downtimes this past few months. Because this is running on a laptop it has been unplugged from the power / ethernet while its been moved.

however good news! I've just purchased a replacement - a nice server :)

Specs - dual core AMD 5600+ with 2 gb RAM, 820gb storage (for those attachments ;) ).

i'll do the switchover soon as i get the machine, should hopefully take 10-15 minutes as i just need to image the drive across.

once i get the machine i'll push up the trial accounts to 15 or 20 so if you're interested i'll post here when the migration is done and you can drop me a note :)

cheers!

[chamelion]

been getting a few PMs recently about whether i still offer this (maybe its the iphone crowd finding a cheaper alternative to apple's crazy crap service!).

yes i do :) and i think users can attest to the fact that since the upgrade to the new server been up and running at 100% since june!

drop me a PM if any of you need service. and yes, it is compatible with the iphone - i use it on my iphone too.

[chamelion]

quick note - yes there was a 3 hour outage between 5am and 8ish am on saturday; sorry about that. seems my ISP went down, given how short the outage was and how this was the first one in god knows how long i didn't bother spending 1/2 an hour on the phone with them figuring out what the issue was :) will chase it up if it happens again though!

[anthony toth]

I was just wondering if you are still doing the free exchange accounts?

[chamelion]

all the free ones are filled unfortunately :( have 14 trial accounts right now, need to start purging them slowly...

[anthony toth]

Ok when you have an open spot please let me know! You Can email me at anthony.fuzi@mail2web.com

[chamelion]

sorry if people have been getting some weird HTTP error. I just noticed thanks to one of the users' error message that the partition holding some of the mail had filled up. just spanned out the volume another 10gb (keeping partitions small to keep them high performing) which should keep it purring for some time to come, and installed an alert to tell me if i'm running low again!

for those of you still looking for paid accounts, yes i'm open for new members, drop me a PM!

[chamelion]

can someone who has successfully set up outlook 07 with my service PM me with the settings they've used? i need to get some instructions on my site on how to do it, and i don't use exchange 07 myself...

thanks!

[dave01978]

I just wanted to let everyone know how great his service is, and his support is top notch. We had an issue with a specific ISP and he sent an email, and all is resolved, and is well worth the small charge.

If you are thinking about it, i say go for it. YOU WILL LOVE IT.

Dave

[chamelion]

UPDATE Now offering Exchange 2010 accounts - fully compatible with latest outlook, html email etc!

Information and registration at https://exchange.etbox.info

[chamelion]

UPDATE Now offering Exchange 2010 accounts - fully compatible with latest outlook, html email etc!

Information and registration at https://exchange.etbox.info